George R R Martin Denies Game Of Thrones Movie In The Works

It’s not every week we’re able draw comparisons between Game of Thrones and The Inbetweeners – there just aren’t enough bus w*ankers in Westeros - and yet in the late hours of last Sunday, we were led to believe the dragons and swords epic was also set for a big screen outing, confirmed by none other than George RR Martin.

The fantasy author was quoted as telling The Daily Star: "There will be a movie but I will not be involved. I have too much to do. That is something HBO and [showrunners] DB [Weiss] and David [Benioff] are dealing with."

Not only that, he even speculated as to how the film might work, adding: "They are looking at dipping back in time during certain periods of the series, which could be examined as a one off plot. That means that some of the big characters who fans have seen die on screen could be resurrected."

Only a few months ago, after confirming the show would be done by season 8, HBO’s President of Programming Michael Lombardo also hinted of a feature-length romp. But alas, it now turns out the chance of a film might not be as odds-on as we'd previously thought, with Martin taking to his personal Livejournal to respond to one commenter who had asked if the reports were actually false:

“Yes, completely false. No one is working on any movie just now. And if there was a movie, it would not be about Robert’s Rebellion," he wrote, referring to the events precluding A Song Of Fire And Ice.

So - at least for the meantime - there we have it: no movie in the works and a heap of time for fans to once again speculate on what form the plot may take should the world's most talked about TV show ever makes it to multiplexes.